Reply #23: 25 of the province's 31 tribes have organized to oppose .. al Qaeda(9/16/2006 article)

[ohio2007]

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The New York Times reported over the weekend that 25 of the province's 31 tribes have organized to oppose the insurgency and al Qaeda.

The tribes are said to be able to comprise “30,000 young men armed with assault rifles who were willing to confront and kill the insurgents and criminal gangs that have torn at the fabric of tribal life in Anbar.” Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh Al-Rishawi, the chief of the Rishawi tribe, said “the insurgents counted about 1,300 fighters, many of them foreigners.” Al-Rishawi explains the process was long and the 25 tribes agree the insurgents and al Qaeda are harming Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2006/09/drawing_the_battleli.php

Iraq chiefs vow to fight al-Qaeda
BBC
18 September 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5357340.stm

Guess it's time for the many tribal iron shieks and chiefs to decide just which enemy to release these 30,000 young armed men on.
Will they truely follow the addage;
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

..seems one of their fallen friends tribes will take the four days off to grieve
and
you know what then follows....